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NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyHistoryLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyHistoryLab, search for ISBN-10: 0133894487 / ISBN-13: 9780133894486. That package includes ISBN-10: 0205960979 / ISBN-13: 9780205960972 and ISBN-10: 0205967779 / ISBN-13: 9780205967773.

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For courses in U.S. History

Help students bridge the present and the pastThe American Nation: A History of the United States, Fifteenth Edition surveys American history in a way that bridges the present to the past, emphasizing the relevance of history to contemporary readers. By showing how history connects to the experiences and expectations that mark students’ lives, the authors bring the study of the American past to life, and engage students deeply in the course.

Also available with MyHistoryLab®MyHistoryLab for the U.S. History Survey course extends learning online, engaging students and improving results. Media resources with assignments bring concepts to life, and offer students opportunities to practice applying what they’ve learned. And Writing Space helps educators develop and assess concept mastery and critical thinking through writing, quickly and easily. Please note: this version of MyHistoryLab does not include an eText.

The American Nation: A History of the United States, Fifteenth Edition is also available via REVEL™, an immersive learning experience designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn.

Author Biography

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Mark C. Carnes received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his PhD in history from Columbia University. He has chaired both the history and American studies departments at Barnard College, Columbia University. Carnes and Garraty were General Editors of the 26-volume American National Biography, for which they were awarded the Waldo Leland Prize of the American Historical Association. Carnes has published numerous books on American social and cultural history, including Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America (1989), Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (1995), Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America’s Past (2001), and Invisible Giants: 50 Americans That Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books (2002). Carnes also pioneered the Reacting to the Past pedagogy, winner of the Theodore Hesburgh Award, sponsored by TIAA-CREF, as the outstanding pedagogical innovation in the nation (2004). In Reacting to the Past, college students play elaborate games, set in the past, their roles informed by classic texts. (For more on Reacting, see: www.barnard.edu/reacting.) In 2005 the American Historical Association named Carnes the recipient of the William Gilbert Prize for the best article on teaching history.

The late John A. Garraty, formerly Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, received his PhD from Columbia University and an LHD from Michigan State University. He authored and edited scores of books, among them biographies of Silas Wright, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Perkins, and Theodore Roosevelt. Garraty’s The New Commonwealth, included in the new American Nation series, challenged earlier dismissals of what was commonly known as “the Gilded Age.” His The Great Depression argued that political leaders throughout the world happened upon “solutions” much like those proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Garraty was co-General Editor with Mark Carnes of the American National Biography.

Table of Contents

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1. Beginnings2. Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas3. The Making of Society in the Colonial Era4. America in the British Empire5. The American Revolution6. The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant7. Jeffersonian Democracy8. National Growing Pains9. Toward a National Economy10. Jacksonian Democracy11. The Making of Middle-Class America12. Westward Expansion13. The Sections Go Their Own Ways14. The Coming of the Civil War15. The War to Save the Union16. Reconstruction and the South